i wonder if i did the right thing?
this was what happened a few hours ago.
i was topping up my EZlink card at the machine. just when i completed my transcation, a middle aged guy approached me. he spoke simple english. here's a rough content of what he said..
he told me that he's jobless now. and he's trying very hard to find a job. so he has to go travelling ard sg for interview in order to find a job. after a couple of min, he finally went to the main point. he said if i cld help him top up his EZlink card becos he has to travel in order to find a job. i was stunned!!! that's a bit ridiculous!!! i din know how to reply him. i paused for quite sometime while he continued talking. he kept saying he wld return the money after he finds himself a job. then i asked him how am i supposed to get the money back from him? then he said i cld leave my mobile no. with him so that he can contact me after he gets a job and with a salary.(im not a kid. even if he found a job,it will only be end of the month when he gets his pay.) he even offered another alternative he said he can give me his mobile no. so that i can call him. he even went to the extent of taking out his wallet to show me his IC just to prove to me that he's a singaporean. if he's a singaporean, all the more he shld have frens and relatives here to help him rite? then,he slotted his card into the machine to show me his card value(-$1.xx) and he even showed me the pathetic 4 bucks he's left with in the wallet. not even enough to top up his farecard.
my mind went thru lots for that few mins. is he a fake one? or is he really so poor that he has no money for transport. or is he someone from the media to conduct a survey to show how compassionate singaporeans are? u know.. Strait Times do have reporters gg ard behind the scene to "test" the public. i do have a slight thought of helping him to top up his farecard. i was in a real dilemma. but i dismissed the thot after that. 10bucks is the min. amt that u can top up with. how can i bear to give my 10bucks to a stranger when i dun even haf enough to spend myself. am i being selfish? i told him im still a student so i dont even have enough to spend on myself. i said sorry i cldnt help him. i rejected him. i said NO. and i tried to walk further away from him step by step.
he could sense that i really didnt want to help him. so he wasnt as persistant. however.. jus before i really "run off", he told me if i have 2bucks to give him so that he can ask other ppl to give me another 4bucks. so with my 2bucks+4bucks from other ppl+4bucks in his wallet=10bucks. and he wld have money to top up his farecard.
10bucks.. how long can he last with it? even if he were to top up 10 bucks, his card value will only be $9 cos he has -$1.xx in his card.
so...... did i do the right thing by rejecting him? what will happen after that? what are the consequences after that?
what will u all do if u are caught in the same situation as me?
